CNG 90, Lot: 2373. Estimate $500. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Danelaw (York). Cnut. Circa 900-905. AR Penny (19mm, 1.29 g, 7h). York mint. C H V T R E X (partially retrograde and/or inverted) arranged around inverted patriarchal cross with four pellets; patterns of pellets within legend / + CVN (four pellets) NE (four pellets) TH (all retrograde), short cross pattée; pellet in 2nd and 4th quarter. L&S Class IIe; SCBI 29 (Merseyside), 307 (same dies); North 501; SCBC 993. Good VF, lightly toned.

From the Peter Moffat Collection.